The Foot-path Way

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Houghton Mifflin, 1892 - 245 sayfa
 

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Sayfa 25 - ... of these occasions, although I was eight days later than I had been the year before (June 19th instead of June llth), the diapensia was just coming into somewhat free bloom, while the sandwort showed only here and there a stray flower, and the geum was only in bud. The dwarf paper birch (trees of no one knows what age, matting the ground) was in blossom, with large, handsome catkins, while Cutler's willow was already in fruit, and the crowberry likewise. The willow, like the birch, has learned...
Sayfa 241 - I hate those trees that never lose their foliage : They seem to have no sympathy with Nature : Winter and Summer are alike to them. The broad and billowy summits of yon monstrous trees, one would imagine, were made for the storms to rest upon when they are tired of raving. And what bark ! It occurs to me, Epicurus, that I have rarely seen climbing plants attach themselves to these trees, as they do to the oak, the maple, the beech...

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